Shade and curtain-pole supporting bracket.



T.. REISS. SHADE AND CURTAIN POLE SUPPORTING BRACKET. APPLICATION FILED NOV. 2. me.

Patented Mar. 12, 1918.

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SHADE AND CURTAIN-POLE SUPPORTING BRACKET.

Application filed November 2, 1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, THEODORE Rnrss, a citizen of the United States, residing at Garfield, in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Shade and Curtain-Pole Supporting Brackets, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to curtain and shade fixtures and the invention has more especial reference to an improved form of combination shade and curtain pole support- 1ng bracket.

The principal object of the invention may be stated to reside in the provision of a combined shade and curtain pole bracket, which can be readily afiixed to the frame of a win dow without doing material injury thereto, and when in position, is capable of lateral adjustment, thereby, permitting the device to be used for supportingshade rollers and curtain poles of various lengths; the adjustment being accomplished without the necessity of removing the bracket from its original position upon the window frame.

Also the improvements embody a novel construction and arrangement of the shade roller and curtain pole supporting brackets, the same being so mounted as to permit independent adjustment of each, thereby, allowing the same to be properly adjusted to receive their respective elements.

Other objects relate to the considerations of economy of production, durability in use and convenience in operation of the several parts entering into the construction of elements in the above defined general organizations of said elements.

The invention consists, furthermore, in the novel arrangement and combinations of the parts of the bracket as well as in the details of the construction of the same, all of which will be more fully described in the following specification, and then finally embodied in the clauses of the claim, which are appended to the specification and which form an essential part of the same.

The invention is clearly illustrated in the accompanying drawings, in which Figure 1 is a front elevation of my improved bracket as applied to a window frame.

Fig. 2 is a top plan thereof showing the sides of the window frame in section,

Fig. 3 is an outer side elevation of the bracket as applied to the window frame, and

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Mar. 12, 1918.

Serial No. 129,197.

Fig. 4; is an inner side elevation of the bracket as applied to the window frame showing the shade roller supporting bracket partly in section as well as the slidable supporting bars.

Similar characters of reference are employed in all of the above described views, to indicate corresponding parts.

Referring now more particularly to th several figures of the said drawings, it is to be noted that I have shown by way of illustration, my improved bracket as applied to a fragmental section of a window frame, generally indicated by the numeral 1, while the present invention comprises a plurality of base plates or supporting brackets indicated by the numeral 2, the said brackets having formed upon one side thereof, a substantially right-angularly disposed arm 8, the said arm being of a greater width than the body portion of the bracket and has the upper and: lower marginal edges thereof bent laterally to constitute horizontally disposed flanges l and 4 in which corresponding openings are arranged, the purpose of which will be subsequently obvious. Nails, screws or other suitable fastening devices are passed through the body portions of the bracket 2 and driven into the desired portions of the window frame section 1, thereby providing means whereby the said bracket 2 will be securely held in the desired position. As is common in the usual construction of devices of this type, two brackets are employed to properly support the shade roller and curtain pole, the same being identical in'construction with the exception that one of the shade roller supporting brackets is provided with a squared trunnion bearing while the remaining bracket is provided with a rounded trunnion bearing; therefore in the description to follow, reference is had to but one of the brackets. Accordingly, in this connection, it is obvious that the said description may be equally well applied to both brackets.

A plurality of squared bars 5 and 6 are received within complementally formed maintained in a substantially horizontal position at all times.

A shade bracket 8 having arranged adjacent the base portion thereof, a plurality of squared openings 9, is arranged upon the bars 5 and 6. The marginal edges of the bracket 8, as adjacent the base thereof, are bent at substantially right angles to the body portion, thus, forming a plurality of horizontal flanges, indicated by the numeral 10, through which corresponding openings are passed. A trunnion bearing 10 is formed within the outer extremity of the bracket 8, and of course may be either squared or rounded, to suit conditions. To provide means whereby the shade bracket 8 may be fixedly secured in desired position upon the bars 5 and 6, the openings in the flanges 10 of the shade bracket are moved into registration with certain of the perforations 7 formed in the bars 5. and 6, whereupon bolts 11 are passed therethrough and a looking nut 12 turned into engagement with the lower extremities thereof. By this arrange ment, it will be evident that further movement of the shade bracket 8 with relation to the bars 5 and 6 will be positively pre vented. A second bracket 13 is arranged upon the bars 5 and 6 and is adapted to receive and support the conventional form of curtain pole. This bracket 13 comprises a body portion, the outer end of which is apertured as at 14, in order that one end of a curtain pole may be inserted therein, while the upper and lower marginal edges of the same are bent to a substantially horizontal position, consequently providing flanges 15, which have arranged therein, adjacent the inner end of the bracket, suitable alined vertical openings. In adjusting the bracket 13, the same is moved laterally along the bars 5 and 6 until the desired position has been reached, whereupon the openings in the said flanges 15 are alined with the adjacent perforations 7 in the bars and a looking bolt 16 similar to the bolt 11 passed through the alined openings and maintained in engaged position through the medium of a locking nut or other suitable fastener.

From the foregoing, it will be obvious that adjustment of the curtain pole and shade roller supporting brackets will be permitted. However. to provide for means whereby further adjustment of the construction may be had, the squared bars 5 and 6 are slidably mounted within the complementally formed openings arranged in the ports 3 of the bracket 2, the flanges 1 c and 4 of the said portions having vertically alined openings arranged therein, through which a locking bolt 17 is passed. It of course being understood that certain of the perforations 7 of the bars 5 and 6 have been previously movedinto alinement with the openings as arranged in the flanges 4 and 1, whereby to permit the said locking bolts to pass entirely therethrough.

In operation, the shade roller and curtain pole are engaged with one of the combina tion brackets, while the remaining bracket is adjusted to the desired position, whereupon the remaining ends of the shade roller and curtain pole are received thereby. Adjustment of the shadesupporting bracket Smay be made by sliding the same along bars 5 and 6"until the desired position has been reached, whereat the locking bolt 11 is passed through the openings formed in the flanges 10 thereof, and the alined openings 7 in the said bars 5 and 6. To adjust the curtain pole supporting bracket 13, a similar operation is followed out, these brackets too, being moved along the bars 5 and 6 until the desired adjustment has been obtained, whereupon the locking bolt 16 in this instance, is then engaged, thus main.

taining the same in fixed position. If it be desired, adjustment of the bracket may be effected by disengaging the connecting bolts 7 from the bars 5 and 6 and moving the same laterally or horizontally to the desired position. By reason of the flanges 1 and 1, which are formed upon the upper and lower marginal edges of the portions 3.

of bracket 2. it' will be noted that the bars 5 and 6 will be normally maintained in a substantially horizontal position, consequently permitting the shade roller or curtain pole to be at all times, supported in proper position.

I am aware that changes may bemade in the various arrangements and combinations of parts as well as the details of the con struction of the same, without departing from the scope of my invention, as defined in the appended claims. Hence, I do not limit the invention to the exact arrangement and combination of the devices and parts as illustrated in the accompanying drawings and as described in the accompanying specification, nor do I confine myself to the exact details of the construction of the said parts.

I claim 1. A combination bracket, comprising a baseplate, a plurality of horizontally arranged bars slidably mounted upon said base plate, means engageable with said base plate and said bars for holding the latter in a fixed position, means slidably arranged upon said bars for receiving and supporting a curtain pole and a shade roller, and means engageable with said receiving and supporting means and said bars for holding theformer in a fixed position.

2. A combination bracket, comprising a base plate, the upper and lower marginal edges of said base plate being bent to form horizontal flanges, a plurality of bars receive and support a shade roller and a carried by the base plate and engaged With curtain pole. 10 said flanges whereby the same will normally In testimony whereof I aflix my signature be maintained in horizontal position, means in presence of tWo Witnesses.

for connecting said bars With said base THEODORE REISS. plate for holding the same in adjusted posilVitnesses:

tion, and a plurality of brackets adjust- MILs C. WHITEHEAD,

ably mounted upon said bars adapted to ISAAC WHITE.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressing the "Commissioner of Patents.

Washington, D. 0. 

